LUSTERNIA'S ALIAS SYSTEM - Lusternia Online Help

2.10 LUSTERNIA'S ALIAS SYSTEM

An alias in Lusternia is a combination of letters and/or numbers, with no
spaces. Linked with this 'word' is a command. When you type the alias, the
command will be executed instead.
For example, if your alias was, 'sayhi' and the command associated with it was
'say Hi everyone!' then everytime you entered 'sayhi', the Lusternian would
turn it into 'say Hi everyone!'.
Within aliases, you may embed what are called targets. Think of targets as an
alias within an alias. All targets in an alias must be preceeded with a &
character.
So, for example, let's make the 'sayhi' alias from above a bit more functional,
so that it may be targetted to your guildmaster, whoever that happened to be at
the time.
You would first set your 'sayhi' alias to equal 'hi &gm', where 'gm' is the
target. You would then set that target to be the name of whoever your
guildmaster is. If you set the 'gm' target to be 'Gawain' then 'sayhi &gm'
would execute 'hi Gawain'.
It should be pointed out that generally you do NOT need 10 maul (for instance)
aliases. Instead of different aliases for 'maul hyena', 'maul rat', etc, all
you need to do is use a target. For example:
setalias ml maul &tar
settarget tar <whatever>
Set up all your attacking aliases to use target, and then when you want to
attack a new opponent, simply change the target, and all your attacking aliases
will now work on the new target.
You may name your aliases and your targets whatever you want, provided they are
12 or fewer characters long. It is important that you do _not_ name your
aliases the same as any commands that you want to use, else the commands will
not work for you. When you type in EAT ASH, for instance, Lusternian will first
search to see if you have an alias called "eat". If you do, then it will try to
execute that.
Command list:
SETALIAS <alias name> <substituted text> : Makes a new alias.
ALIASLIST/AL : Lists your aliases.
CLEARALIAS <alias name> : Clears an alias.
SETTARGET/ST <target name> <text> : Makes a new target.
TARGETLIST/TARLIST : Lists your targets.
CLEARTARGET <target> : Clears a target.